Dr. Fernando Álvarez Padilla
Welcome
The IB-UNAM Chamela Biological Station spider inventory includes 251 species of Araneomorphae documented with 2,849 standard views.At the moment we are working on publishing the ecological and taxonomic data.
These spiders were collected in two half hectare plots separated by 0.88 kms covering Tropical Deciduous Forest and Tropical wet forest and visited three times a year from 2023 to 2025. Sampling protocols included six methods: cryptic searching, beating vegetation (day and night), pitfall traps, Berlesse funnels for leaf litter, and direct collecting on the vegetation 'Looking up (LUP)' and on the ground 'looking down(LUD)'. Leaf litter was processed with 12 Berlese funnels of 45 cm. in diameter per plot and 30 pitfall traps left for five active days.
Locality data: kml file.
C1: Jalisco, La Huerta. Estación de Biología Chamela IB, Plot I (0.5ha). Central coordiantes 19.501128, -105.046492, Alt. 35 m. Low Tropical Decidious Forest.
C2: Jalisco, La Huerta. Estación de Biología Chamela IB, Plot II (0.5ha). Central coordinates 19.503203, -105.038494, Alt.26 m. Medium Tropical Decidious Forest.
Send your comments and identifications to this email: fap@ciencias.unam.mx
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the staff of Chamela Biological Station for allowing this inventory, their nice and comfortable installations and the delicious food. In particular to: Katherine Renton (Director), Enrique Ramírez-García, Sayra Sánchez-Siordia and Mr Abel. We also would like to thank the following students for collecting spiders in the field: Ali Zeltzin Lira-Olguin, Antonio Galán-Sánchez, Sebastián Medrano-Van Dooren, Carlos A. Torrez Muñoz, Aixa Jaret Wong-Hernández, Sara Moreno-Mestre, Uriel Fernando Moras-Galeana, Ivàn Meneses-Alvarado and Miguel Alejandro López-Trejo.
Picture captions: left to right: Carlos, Sara, Dr. Fernando, Ali, Sebastián y Toño. Second picture: Fernando, Wong, Sebastián, Dr. Fernando, Carlos e Iván.